College and Research Libraries this r e p o r t should be supplemented by the technical reports published in Personal Psy- chology d u r i n g the 1952-55 p e r i o d . — E r v i n Eatenson, Columbia University Libraries. Technical Book R e v i e w Technical Book Review (Science. E n g i n e e r - ing. M e d i c i n e . T e c h n o l o g y ) , V o l . 1, N o . i - 2 , S e p t . / O c t . — N o v . / D e c . , 1954. L o n - d o n ; E . W . Publications, L t d . B i - m o n t h l y . 15s. O n e of the serious gaps in the book selec- tion apparatus f o r scientific and technical li- braries is a current list of n e w books. N o list of such books n o w published is adequate f o r the purpose. W i t h the appearance of the Technical Book Review, it appeared t h a t f o r the first time such a service might become available. T h e principal content of the first t w o issues w a s given o v e r to r e v i e w s of n e w books sup- plemented by a special d e p a r t m e n t headed T.B.R. Register. T h e f o l l o w i n g statement precedes the n e w books l i s t e d : T h e T . B . R . R e g i s t e r is d e s i g n e d to be a check list g i v i n g a u t h o r , title, n u m b e r of p a g e s , p u b l i s h e r , price, edition a n d ( w h e r e a v a i l a b l e ) brief d e t a i l s of e v e r y book r e - cently p u b l i s h e d or about to be p u b l i s h e d in t h e U n i t e d K i n g d o m , the B r i t i s h C o m m o n - w e a l t h a n d t h e U . S. A . W i t h the c o o p e r a t i o n of p u b l i s h e r s a n d o t h e r s , h o w e v e r , w e h o p e t h a t b e f o r e l o n g the r e g i s t e r w i l l be as complete as is p r a c t i c a b l e . A t a l a t e r d a t e it is i n t e n d e d to i n c l u d e books in f o r e i g n l a n g u a g e s . T h e first issue listed a p p r o x i m a t e l y 235 titles, 6 4 % of w h i c h w e r e B r i t i s h , including only one E m p i r e publication, and 3 6 % w e r e issued in the U n i t e d States. W i t h but v e r y f e w exceptions all of the U n i t e d States titles listed w e r e s h o w n to also h a v e B r i t i s h o u t - lets. T h e l a r g e s t p r o p o r t i o n w e r e W i l e y and M c G r a w - H i l l publications. A n unexpected exception w a s three titles published by M c - K n i g h t and M c K n i g h t of B l o o m i n g t o n , I l l i - nois. T h i s w a s obviously inadequate c o v e r a g e but it w a s to be understood f o r a n e w j o u r n a l . T h e editor w r o t e : " W e f u l l y r e a l i z e the im- mensity of the t a s k , " and expressed hope f o r f u l l cooperation of publishers in the f u t u r e . T h e second issue, h o w e v e r , recorded many f e w e r titles and an even s m a l l e r percentage of U n i t e d S t a t e s publications. ( T h e r e w a s also a m a r k e d depreciation in the q u a l i t y of the paper used f o r the text.) O f the total of 107 titles, 7 4 % w e r e British, including only one E m p i r e publication, and 2 6 % w e r e f r o m the U n i t e d States. T h e distribution f r o m the U . S. w a s s o m e w h a t better, there being a good representation of t w o additional pub- lishers, A c a d e m i c and R e i n h o l d . T h e infrequency of publication, coupled w i t h late appearance of the issues, leaves a g r e a t deal to be desired f o r an aid of this kind. T h e first issue ( S e p t . / O c t . ) and the second issue ( N o v . / D e c . ) w e r e received in C h i c a g o respectively on N o v e m b e r 22 and F e b r u a r y 9. T h e first t w o issues contained 25 and 32 r e v i e w s , supplemented in the second issue w i t h a small number of shorter notices. T h e panel of r e v i e w e r s promises excellence i n s o f a r as the n e w publications are covered. T h e merit of r e v i e w s , h o w e v e r , in such limited numbers seems questionable. T h e appearance of r e v i e w s in scientific and technical j o u r n a l s such as Science and Nature ( a m o n g the gen- eral publications) and a w i d e v a r i e t y of spe- cial s u b j e c t j o u r n a l s seems better to serve the need f o r r e v i e w s . A n d f o r an a c c u m u l a - tion of critical opinion the Technical Book Review Index has a w i d e r range of practical v a l u e to libraries. O n the f a v o r a b l e side the w i d e s u b j e c t c o v e r a g e is to be commended. T h e criticism of too w i d e c o v e r a g e alluded to by the editor in the first issue is, as he suggests, invalid. Isolation a m o n g the v a r i o u s sciences is at best w a s t e f u l . T h e a r r a n g e m e n t of the T.B.R. Register under the main divisions of the U n i v e r s a l D e c i m a l C l a s s i f i c a t i o n is v e r y u s e f u l . T h e bibliographic style is good and the typography is adequate, a l t h o u g h so com- pact t h a t on the g r a y paper of the second issue there is a sharp reduction in readability. —Herman H. Henkle, The John Crerar Library. Index to W i n g Index of Printers, Publishers, and Book- sellers in Donald Wing's Short-Title Cata- logue, 1641-1700. B y P a u l G . M o r r i s o n . C h a r l o t t e s v i l l e : U n i v e r s i t y of V i r g i n i a P r e s s , f o r the B i b l i o g r a p h i c a l Society of 426 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES the University of Virginia, 1955. 217 p. $20.00 ($10.00 to members.) T o his constantly useful Index to the P o l - l a r d - R e d g r a v e Short-Title Catalogue, printed in 1950 by photo-offset, D r . M o r r i s o n has now added a similar Index to the 80,000 entries in W i n g . O n e could wish to revive a useful old w o r d to praise such "indicular" devotion: countless hours of patient listing have pro- duced a tool that younger scholars w i l l soon be taking f o r granted. B u t the tool here provided w i l l assuredly continue f o r a f e w years to seem to older w o r k e r s almost mi- raculous in the ease with which it now makes possible any search for books of a known printer or bookseller: in the dull columns now laid before us is a quick identification of any English book that contains the name Abington or Y o u n g in its imprint, or any name in between, and then one can continue to study the publishing history of that man. Even the arrangement by years under each name has a distinct convenience. O n e immediate value of this Index w i l l be its capability of correcting or supplementing the information in the T e r m C a t a l o g u e s and Plomer's lists as to the span of years during which the different booksellers remained active; in fact, this w i l l make the needed re- vision of Plomer almost easy. E v e r y book here recorded under a man's name may pos- sibly add to the sum of knowledge concerning his activity. (Some caution w i l l be required because D r . M o r r i s o n has purposely com- bined t w o or more men of the same name into one list, e.g., B a r k e r and D a n i e l . ) N o doubt some errors have crept in dur- ing the indexing, transcribing, setting in type, and proofing of such a staggering mass of numbers. B u t the w o r k seems steadily ac- curate, and any errors can be readily cor- rected in use. A f e w false dates have been l e f t uncorrected, for example, whether or not W i n g corrected them, to produce slightly startling entries with dates earlier than 1641, as under John Bill, John Crouch, Leonard Lichfield, W i l l i a m M a r s h a l , and H e n r y T w y - ford. Somewhat oddly, D r . M o r r i s o n apolo- gizes in his preface for two strange entries in the Index, each of which could have been verified or corrected, to judge by the loca- tions in W i n g , by a single inquiry addressed to an American l i b r a r i a n . — A . T. Hazen, Columbia University. Recent~Foreign Books on the Graphic A r t s , Bibliography, and Library Science Shortly before W o r l d W a r I, O . W i l l - mann and E. M . Rohloff edited an important Lexikon der Pddagogik in five volumes. In 1930-32 this w o r k w a s supplemented and brought up-to-date by the Lexikon der Pddagogik der Gegenwart, edited by the Deutsches Institut f u r Wissenschaftliche Padagogik in M u n s t e r , W e s t p h a l i a . I m - portant as these seven volumes w e r e , it w a s out of the question to attempt to issue further supplementary volumes. O n l y a completely new edition could be satisfactory and this is what the Deutsches Institut in M u n s t e r and the Institut f u r Vergleichende Erziehungs- wissenschaft in S a l z b u r g have given us in the new Lexikon der Padagogik ( F r e i b u i g : H e r d e r , 1952-55; 4 vols.; D M 224. f o r the s e t ) . In the very beginning one important point should be emphasized about this great r e f e r - ence w o r k : although the publisher is a lead- ing Catholic firm, and although the sponsor- ship and orientation of the w o r k is basically Catholic, the breadth and bona fide objectivity of the Lexikon lend it a significance that reaches f a r beyond any sectarian limitation. In many respects the Catholic orientation is positively a virtue, for example, in the ade- quate treatment of the history of education in the M i d d l e Ages. M o r e o v e r , in the absence of any Protestant or non-sectarian encyclo- pedia of education, the Lexikon must be recognized as the one definitive recent w o r k of its type. T h e complete w o r k contains contributions by over 700 authorities. T h e r e are 3,950 articles and references. T h e exhaustive in- dex at the end of the fourth volume contains some 16,500 entries. Every aspect of the his- tory, practice, and theory of education is represented f o r the new Lexikon proposes to be absolutely comprehensive in its field. Each article is signed by the name of the author. Contributors are identified in a list at the beginning of each volume. T h i s list is followed by an alphabetical list of articles with page numbers to serve as a sort of table of contents. Comparatively f e w abbreviations ( f o r a w o r k of this magnitude) are used, but OCTOBER, 1955 40 7